• 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    This has been done over and over again to entice boomer parents to get their kids to stop playing video games. My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini becuase they thought it was a exploration game…

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      It’s rock music. It’s “reefer madness”. Then it’s metal music with satanic messaging when played backwards. Now it’s video games. Same old blame game while never tackling the actual problems of lack of psych care, real societal pressures like financial difficulties, and more.

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        I mean aside from LSD being introduced by the CIA into the public, everything else the government tries to blame someone else.

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      Boomers’ children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn’t play anymore

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        I’m talking about boomer parents. In respects to the millennial parents, of course they are laughing at this shit (or I would hope so)

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          Boomers are the parents of Gen X kids.
          What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense.

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              That’s cool. Playing the outlier game could go on all day, but it’s obviously not the norm.

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                Ok. Maybe it was just me then, but growing up in the 90s there was a push for “video games bad they are violent”

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                  4 days ago

                  Yea. They’ve been doing it since the 70’s, and are still doing it now by trying to say Among Us made Luigi violent.

                  That doesn’t have anything to do with the millennial or gen z generations. The first “video game generation” was X.

                  Silent> Greatest> Boomer> X> Millennial> Z

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      My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini

      At least you landed on solid gold! Jet Force Gemini was the single best shooter for the N64. Far superior to Golden Eye. Yes, I’ll die on this hill.